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ICONSnot just a click on the computer screen, but
  • WINDOWS TO HEAVEN

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3 Questions
  • Arent you worshipping Idols?
  • Why do they look so Weird?
  • What good are they?

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1. Arent you worshipping Idols?
  • 10 Commandments in Exodus 202f
  • 1 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
  • 2 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,

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Iconoclasm
  • Iconoclasts 730 850 A.D.
  • Imperial State authority power
  • Icons were Wrong
  • Icons were smashed
  • (con icon)
  • Iconodules (pro Icon)
  • --lay people
  • Monasteries
  • Theologians St. John of Damascus

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God the Iconographer
  • Colossians 115
  • He (Christ) is the
  • image of the invisible God.
  • in Greek image icon
  • the Christ is the
  • invisible God made visible
  • John 149
  • Jesus said to him
  • He who has seen Me
  • has seen the Father

No Graven statues Icon 2 d
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ICON MADE WITHOUT HUMAN HANDS
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Saints
  • All Icons are icons of Christ

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St. Luke the Iconographer
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THE 7TH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL
  • Define that Holy Icons should be
  • Exhibited
  • Contemplated
  • Kissed
  • Venerated (proskynisis)
  • Not worshipped (latreia)
  • transmit the love worship
  • to the Prototype
  • Triumph of Orthodox Sunday (1st S. of Lent)

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2. Why do they look so Weird?
  • Gospels in colour
  • (not mere art)
  • not realistic
  • flat 2 dimensional (spiritual v. secular)
  • inverse Perspective ascetic
  • stylised
  • abstract Poetic

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Some Ground Rules about the writing of icons
  • no Graven Images
  • only 2 dimensional representations
  • no depicting of God the Father
  • no ego for the iconographer
  • fasting and prayer
  • anonymous
  • instruments, brushes, etc. are consecrated
  • not free for all for Iconographer
  • manuals to help follow the Tradition
  • copies the Tradition

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3. What good are they?
  • not just religious art
  • not holy pictures Obraz
  • -- not just decoration
  • not education, teaching illiterate
  • not fill empty space on the wall
  • Windows to Heaven

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Icons in Liturgy Temple
  • Presence of
  • the Divine
  • Theology of Beauty

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CHRIST THE LIFE GIVER
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THE OLD TESTAMENT TRINITY
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THE THEOTOKOS
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The Gospels in Colour Healing the Soul
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